The History of Love: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0393342840
- ISBN-13
- 9780393342840
- Series
- The History of Love
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-05-17
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Nicole Krauss
Description
ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).
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